Trusler is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Peterborough who creates ‘site-responsive installations’ incorporating drawing, painting, writing, sculpture, performance, and film.
The show knowing;being is a work in progress according to Tusler, and encompasses landscape painting, installation, sculpture and interactive elements.
In her artist statement Trusler notes that her work examines the nature of memory and ‘how we know things’.
“I’m intrigued by the roles that symbol and language play in coding memory and the ways in which recollections are organized into what we understand as history. My interest in memory stems in part from my family history – Alzheimer’s runs through my father’s line – and from insights gained in the years after a tumour was removed from a learning and memory centre in my brain in my late twenties.”
Trusler went on to explain that inspiration for the project came from a vintage how-to paddle manual and ‘several documents I had stored together decades ago.’ including essays on resume and essay writing.
“On finding the collection I recalled my state of mind from when I assembled it. I wanted to be a better writer, more learned and prepared for adulthood. And I wanted to be a master paddler—not necessarily in that order..”
The opening reception for knowing;being is Friday Jan. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Art Gallery of Bancroft.
The show runs until Feb. 1.
